Well its all over!!! The months of training, long rides, long runs finding lakes to swim in has come to an end. The Grand Finale was held over in sunny Taupo....... well almost sunny, but more on that later.
As mentioned in the last post the bags were packed (stuffed) and we headed off to Melbourne to start the adventure. A great feed and comfy bed at Airport Aunty's place, saw us safely out to the airport at 4am... not wanting to make a habit of these let me tell you! Long story short, we made it to NZ without a hitch, plenty of time at the airport to chill out (shock horror, no more missed flights this trip!).
Getting to our first motel proved to be another story however. Following the instructions we got from Shirm and the net we cruised down the highway through some solid downpours (are they telling us something?) through to a quiet little town for lunch. Back on the road to find that a fuel tanker had taken a tumble and the road was going to be closed for another few hours (is this trying to tell us something?). Rightio, off on our detour tour. Another hour into our trip, we find out that our directions were completely wrong and we had been heading to somewhere we shouldn't have been! Maybe the universe was trying to tell us something???
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| Shirm, Matty, Griffo (THM) and Miah pumped for the race! Could have left the wetsuits on for the day! |
Yep, we finally made it to Hamilton and the next day down to Taupo. Find the house, check! (very comfy). Get the bikes unpacked and put back together, check! Check in and check out the pre races events, check! Ready to go? Check!!
